Ship-canal.



Patented Aug. 8, I899. A. HOGELAND.

SHIP CANAL.

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No. 630,457. Patented Aug. 8, I899.

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No. 630,457. Patented Aug; 8, I899.

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UNITED "STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER HOGELAND, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

SHIP-CANAL.

sPEciFIc TIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,457, dated August a, 1899. Application filed March 3, 1899. Serial No. 707,639. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ALEXANDER HOGELAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefierson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Ship-Canals, of which aqueduct ship-canal, which is built practically above ground for any desired length. The side walls 1 and bottom 2 of the canal are composed of iron or steel plates of suitable dimensions having, preferably, buttjoints, which are covered externally by and the following 18 a specification.

My invention relates to an improved construction of ship-canal, and has for its object to provide a canal which is practically above ground for the principal part of its course from one ocean, river, or lake to another, as the case may be, and thereby obviates the laborious and expensive excavating, dredging,

washouts, and other difficulties incidental to.

an ordinary dug canal, such as the attempted Panama and proposed Nicaraguan canals.

The invention consists in features of novelty,as hereinafter described and claimed,ref-

ercnce being had to the accomp'anying'draw,

' and its supporting-beam as seen on line 5 5 in Fig. 3; Fig. 6, an outside elevation of the side wall, broken away, of the canal seen in Fig. 3, omitting the longitudinal trusses for the side wall between consecutive buttresses; and Fig. 7, a horizontal section on line 7 7 in Fig. 3, showing one of the saidtrusses. 8 is a view corresponding to Fig. 3, showing the application of my invention toa sea, river, harbor, or dock wall; and Fig. 9, a birds-eye view of an extended length of the canal, showing a terminal portion in the foreground, which is constructed in the ordinary wellknown manner and provided with the usual locking system for admitting and raising ships from the ocean or other navigable Water to the level of my improved elevated portion ofthe canal.

Like letters and numerals of reference denote like parts in all the figures.

A represents a portion of my improved the top of the said Walls. jnel thus constructed is supported on I-beams or other suitably shaped girders B, which are arranged transversely to the channel 1 2 at Flg.

securely riveted to plates and strlps, as hereinafter more particularly specified, the whole forming a strong and thoroughly water-tight trough or channel throughout the entire length of the canal A. The side walls 1 preferably slope outward from the bottom 2 to The entire chansuitable distances apart. Each beam B is integral or in one continuous length and horizontal, the bottom 2 of the channel bearing directly on the top of the beams 13, which extend for a suitable distance beyond the side walls 1 of the channel and are embedded in a preferably concrete foundation 0 of suitable depth and area for supporting the entire weight of the canal A, or, in lieu of concrete, rubble, masonry, brick, or other suitable material or combination thereof may be used for the foundation 0. v

To each extended end portion of each beam B beyond the corresponding side wall 1 of the channel 1 2 is fixed avertically-arranged and preferably triangular-shaped buttress or frame D, which is preferably composed of angles and Ts 'or other sections of iron or steel suitably arranged and firmly riveted together, the height of the buttress D preferably corresponding to thevertical depth of the channel 1 2, as shown.

One leg 3 of each buttress D bears against the outside of the plates composing the side walls 1 of the channel 1 2 thereat for its entire inclined depth and serves as a coverplate to the corresponding butt-joints of the said plates, to which the leg 3 is securely riveted.

The base 4. of each buttress D is riveted for its entire length to the corresponding extended end portion of the supporting-beam B.

Between consecutive buttresses D throughout the entire length of the canal A are arranged vertically or following the inclination of the side wall 1 two or more I-beams orother I suitably-shaped girders 5, which bear against the outside, of the plates composing the side Wall 1 of the channel 1 2 thereat and serve as cover-plates to the corresponding butt-joints of the said plates, to which the beams 5 are securely riveted. Between the beams 5 and between the latter and the adjacent but= tresses D, respectively, are arranged hori zontally at suitable distances apart T-irons 6, which serve as cover-plates to the horizontal butt-joints of the plates composing the side wall 1 thereat, to which the T-irons 6 are securely riveted.

Straddling and riveted to the beams 5 in the horizontal plane of each row of T-irons 6 is an angle or other suitably-shaped bar 7, which is fixed at its ends to the corresponding buttresses D and to the plates thereat of the side wall 1, the bar 7 being connected to its corresponding T-irons 6 by bars 8, arranged zigzag, (or latticewise,) as shown in Fig 7, the whole forming a series-of horizontal trusses E for stiffening the side wall 1 between the buttresses D, and thereby enabling the side wall 1 to withstand the pressure of water in the canal A.

By the above construction the channel 1 2 being made of plating practically in one piecethroughout and resting at the bottom 2 directly on the foundation-beams B and fixed at its side walls 1 to the buttresses D, which are also fixed to the said beams B, combined with the horizontal trusses E, which are fixed to the buttresses D and to the side walls 1, the channel 1 2 of the canal A is firmly held inlan iron cradle for its entire length.

If desired, the longitudinal trusses E betwee'n'the buttresses D may be dispensed with and the necessary stiflness imparted to the sidewalls lbyincreasing the number of buttresses D and placing them closer to each other; but by using the trusses E the distance between the buttresses D can be increased and economy in construction thereby gained.

What I claim as my invention, and desire channel, substantially as described.

2. An aqueduct-canal having an iron or steel plate channel or trough bearing at the bottom on beams arranged transversely beneath the channel, the said'beams extending beyond the side walls of the channel and bedded in a foundation of concrete or analogous material, each beam having two opposite buttresses fixed thereto and to the side walls respectively, substantially as described.

3'. An aqueduct-canal having an iron or steel plate channel or trough bearing at the bottom on beams arranged transversely beneath the channel, the said beams extending beyond the side walls of the channel, and each beam having two opposite buttresses fixed thereto and to the side walls respectively, and trusses fixed along the side walls and having their ends fixed to the buttresses adjacent thereto respectively, substantially as described.

ALEXANDER I-IOGELAND. Witnesses:

GEORGE L. BELFRY, EDWARD W. FURR-ELL. 

